It was one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s most dramatic pledges in his sweeping “Green New Deal” for Los Angeles: “We will have zero days of unhealthy air quality by 2025.” The goal, it turns out, was not as ambitious as it sounded. Rather than using current federal health standards, the mayor’s plan…
It was 45 minutes into his lecture when the rabbi pulled out an AR-15. “Who thinks, by show of hands, that we should be carrying more guns in shul?” Rabbi Raziel Cohen asked the crowd at a Westside Chabad synagogue Wednesday night, during an active-shooter seminar organized in the wake of the deadly…
On Mother’s Day, 1942, the Los Angeles Times recognized Thelma B. England on Alhambra. Her son Ensign John C. England died at Pearl Harbor aboard the battleship Oklahoma.
Nikolai Greco, 11, didn’t know what he was in for when he walked onto the field of Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Stadium Thursday afternoon, May 9. But everything clicked for him when he glanced at a ball signed by the players and coaches of the school’s men’s soccer team. Defender Sam Molz, left, applauds as…
He was charged by a herd of 200 elephants, escaping only with the help of a flatbed truck, and was once knocked unconscious by a surly chimpanzee named Mr. Moke, who punched him “square between the eyes.” But neither incident compared to the time a 22-foot anaconda swallowed his arm, up to the…
Los Angeles voters will be able to cast ballots on a proposed property tax for schools, but the measure will face a hearing on its validity after the June 4 election. If approved by two-thirds of voters, Measure EE would raise an estimated $500 million per year over 12 years to help fund traditional…
The sun had yet to rise when a Los Angeles Unified School District police officer unlocked a gate to a station parking lot northeast of downtown. As he pulled into the fenced lot about 5:30 a.m., motion detector lights blinked on, illuminating a man walking through the gate behind him. He carried…
CAMP PENDLETON — One Marine was killed and six others were injured during a routine training exercise on the base, Thursday, May 9. Marines from the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion were doing regularly scheduled training at Camp Pendleton when the light armored vehicle they were riding in rolled over at about 9 a.m., said…
Family members of murder victims whose killers were sentenced to death in California often took solace knowing that one day those prisoners could be executed. But Gov. Gavin Newsom’s March 13 executive order placing a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty has taken away that consolation. Thursday, May 9, some of those survivors spoke…
Santa Ana Unified School District has sent invoices totaling $40 million to five Santa Ana-based charter schools. Charter school officials said they only first heard they might owe the district for special education costs when they received the invoices in March. Until now they’d worked well together, officials said. The schools – whose charters are…
